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《麥迪為何而跑：一位典型美國青少年的私密掙扎與死亡悲劇》

　　由ESPN知名體育記者Kate Fagan執筆，大學體育新星Madison Holleran殞落這令人心碎卻又不能不重視的重要案例故事。她的自殺死訊震驚賓州大學的校園，更揭露當代深受精神疾患所苦的青少年，不為人知的掙扎。

　　如果你瀏覽19歲的Madison Holleran的IG頁面，你會看到一個完美的生活呈現於眼前：常春藤名校的新生、獲選田徑隊徵召，一個漂亮、受歡迎、無比聰明的年輕生命。這女孩征服了生命中的各種挑戰，而大好生命才正要展開。

　　但當Maddy展開她期待的大學生活，父母卻留意到了一些改變。曾是好強堅毅的她變得退卻，開始想著如何改變自己的生活。即便付出無數的時間與心神練習體育及唸書，她卻開始考慮轉學離開這所她曾夢想的學校。當Maddy的父親Jim在春季開學日送她到學校，她別離的擁抱，似乎比平時長了一點點。而這也將是Jim最後一次見到女兒。

　　《麥迪為何而跑》源自於Kate Fagan為ESPN所寫的一篇專欄，報導Maddy的生命。然而原先一個年輕運動員消逝於自殺的故事，在其他大學運動員也相繼傳出遭受精神疾病所苦時，顯得更深刻也更為重要。本書是Maddy Holleran的生命故事，關於她如何與憂鬱症奮鬥掙扎，同時也是年輕世代─尤其是大學運動員們─在這個著重人際聯繫，以及往往在社群媒體上為生活套上修飾濾鏡的網路社群世代，演出完美的人生，面對龐大壓力的真實寫照。(文/博客來編譯)

The heartbreaking story of college athlete Madison Holleran, whose life and death by suicide reveal the struggle of young people suffering from mental illness today in this #1 New York Times Sports and Fitness bestseller

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If you scrolled through the Instagram feed of 19-year-old Maddy Holleran, you would see a perfect life: a freshman at an Ivy League school, recruited for the track team, who was also beautiful, popular, and fiercely intelligent. This was a girl who succeeded at everything she tried, and who was only getting started.

But when Maddy began her long-awaited college career, her parents noticed something changed. Previously indefatigable Maddy became withdrawn, and her thoughts centered on how she could change her life. In spite of thousands of hours of practice and study, she contemplated transferring from the school that had once been her dream. When Maddy's dad, Jim, dropped her off for the first day of spring semester, she held him a second longer than usual. That would be the last time Jim would see his daughter.

WHAT MADE MADDY RUN began as a piece that Kate Fagan, a columnist for espnW, wrote about Maddy's life. What started as a profile of a successful young athlete whose life ended in suicide became so much larger when Fagan started to hear from other college athletes also struggling with mental illness. This is the story of Maddy Holleran's life, and her struggle with depression, which also reveals the mounting pressures young people, and college athletes in particular, face to be perfect, especially in an age of relentless connectivity and social media saturation.

作者介紹

Kate Fagan is a columnist and feature writer for espnW, ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. She is also a regular panelist on ESPN’s Around the Horn and can be seen on Outside the Lines, First Take and His & Hers.

Previously, Fagan spent three seasons covering the 76ers for the Philadelphia Inquirer. She is the author of a memoir, The Reappearing Act, and co-host of the espnW podcast Free Cookies. Kate lives in Brooklyn, New York with her girlfriend Kathryn Budig and their two dogs.